Megan Abbott
Megan Abbott (born August 21, 1971 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American writer who writes crime novels and short stories.
Life
Megan Abbott grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, studied at the University of Michigan and received her PhD in Anglo-American literature from New York University . Since 2005 she has written novels and short stories as well as essays and reviews for numerous media outlets such as the New York Times , the Guardian , the Los Angeles Times and Elle . She was a lecturer at various universities and was appointed John Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi for 2013-14.
With The End of Everything , Abbott began to focus on young teenage girls thematically. The novel was the only one of her to appear in German. After a translation by Isabel Bogdan , it was published in 2012 by the Cologne publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch under the German title Das Ende der Innschuld .
Abbott is married to the writer Joshua Gaylord and lives in Queens, New York .
Works
Novels
- Die a Little (2005)
- The Song Is You (2007)
- Queenpin (2007)
- Bury Me Deep (2009)
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The End of Everything (2011)
- The end of innocence , by Isabel Bogdan; Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2012. ISBN 978-3-462-04390-7
- Dare Me (2012)
- The Fever (2014)
- You will Know Me (2016)
- Give Me Your Hand (2018)
stories
- The Girl (in LA Noire: The Collected Stories , 2011)
- My Heart is Either Broken (in Dangerous Women , 2013)
- The Little Men (in Bibliomysteries. Short Tales about Deadly Books , 2016)
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Girlie Show (in In Sunlight or In Shadow. Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper , 2016)
- Burlesque , German by Frauke Czwikla, in: Nighthawks. Stories based on the paintings of Edward Hopper ; Droemer, Munich 2017. ISBN 978-3-426-28164-2
- Oxford Girl (in Mississippi Noir , 2016)
Others
- The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled fiction and Film Noir (PhD, 2002)
- A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir (Story Collection / Editor, 2007)
- In 2017, Megan Abbott wrote the screenplay for the episode Au Reservoir in the HBO series The Deuce and acted as the script editor for six other episodes.
Awards
- 2008: Edgar Award - Best Novel category as an original paperback for Queenpin
- 2008: Barry Award - Best paperback novel category for Queenpin
- 2014: The Strand Critics Award (Best Novel) together with Laura Lippman ( After I'm Gone ) for The Fever
- 2015: International Thriller Award - Best Novel category for The Fever
- 2016: Anthony Award - Best Short Story for The Little Men
- 2017: Anthony Award - Best Short Story for Oxford Girl
Web links
- Literature by and about Megan Abbott in the catalog of the German National Library
- Megan Abbott in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Megan Abbott at perlentaucher.de
- Megan Abbott on Twitter
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Keith Rawson: 10 Questions with Megan Abbott , litreactor.com , June 17, 2014, accessed December 25, 2014
- ↑ David W. Brown: Writing of Rage and the Teenage Girl , theatlantic.com , June 18, 2014, accessed December 25, 2014
- ↑ Edgar Award Winners andNominees. Retrieved July 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine- Barry Awards. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 23, 2012 ; accessed on July 23, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abbott, Megan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detroit , Michigan |